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Throwback Thursday

The Optimist is taking a step back in time each week with Throwback Thursday. We’ll dig up an interesting item from the pages of the paper’s back issues and post it online. This week we go back to 1943.
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This ad from the Thursday, May 20 edition of the Optimist asks for scrap metal to help make tanks, guns and ammunition during the Second World War.

The Optimist is taking a step back in time each week with Throwback Thursday. We’ll dig up an interesting item from the pages of the paper’s back issues and post it online. This week we go back to 1943.

This ad from the Thursday, May 20 edition of the Optimist asks for scrap metal to help make tanks, guns and ammunition during the Second World War.